Please pick me! I have been wanting one of those!

This Tuesday, Vote for ME!

I am using AT&T and I unlocked my iPhone using the iPhone dev team unlock method and iBrickr. Thursday night I ran the update and everything appeared to go smoothly until it finished and I saw the message "Incorrect Sim".

I immediately drove to the Apple store to see what could be done. After waiting 1.5 hours to meet with a mac genius and claiming to know no such thing about "unlocking" or "hackers" they replaced my iPhone. I believe he did this not because he bought my lie, but because I am a paying AT&T customer.

There was another guy there who was just as rediculous sounding. He bought his iPhone 6 days earlier, clearly unlocked it and never activated with AT&T and feigned innocence. The reps were really trying to help him until they looked at the IMEI screen on the locked phone, and said something about the numbers not being the same as the back of the unit. This really surprised me. But they looked up his phone in AT&Ts system some how and found that it was "activated" with some other service... They weren't making any sense, but it did sound to me like they had been prepped before this because they were obviously making sound judgments about his phone.

They turned him away basically saying that there was absolutely nothing they could do. Permanently bricked iPhone. I honestly felt bad for the guy.

I now have a new iPhone and I am not even thinking about hacking it again. I was LUCKY to have gotten away with only a couple of hours of frustration... not a $600 phone that only dials 911.

READ THIS IF YOU WANT TO UNLOCK A BRAND NEW iPhone USING WINDOWS

This is still a little misleading. I'm an experienced software developer and I still found the inital "jailbreak" process to be daunting on a new & unactivated iPhone.

Ibrickr is a GREAT tool that gets you 80% there but it still requires the latest iPhone firmware to begin... and that's not easy to get unless you have already activated your iPhone.

I have done a couple of unlocks now, and this is without question the easiest guide: http://iphone.unlock.no/

The easiest way to unlock via windows is by using someone else's iPhone/computer who has already activated their phone to help you get started.

1. Start with your buddy's iPhone sync'd with iTunes open.

2. Open iBrickr and click start.

3. Click the Restore button on the iPhone page, and act as if you are going to restore the firmware on your friend's iphone (don't worry, you won't).

4. When iTunes indicates it's downloading the update/firmware for the iPhone, unplug your friend's iPhone and replace it with the phone you want to activate.

5. Now follow the instructions in iBrickr, and you're good to go...

I'm feeling lucky!

Pick Me!

I would like to be considered, please!

I have been a loyal Thinkpad user since I first used one in 2002. I gave away my Dell Latitude and picked up a refurbished Thinkpad and never looked back.
I loved its elegant yet simple design, the way the solid construction felt in my hands, and the keyboard most of all.
When they came out with the 1400x1050 screen I fell in love with it again.

5 years, 4 thinkpads, 3 screens later I am still a thinkpad lover... but damn those are some expensive screens to fix/replace.

Sadly, I must admit that my next notebook purchase will be a macbook pro.

This will make a nice placeholder until I get my iPhone!!